Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Argues that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities - are to be understood not in terms of 'relaxation' but rather of the need for pleasurable excitement and its pleasurable resolution.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Including the consolidated index to the Collected Works as a whole, this title contains two substantial supplements: a long and important critique on Freud... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked through communication and orientation to group survival.... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". This... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Presents an exposition of the author's sociological theory of the growth of knowledge and the sciences as an aspect of overall human social development.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
First published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after the author's most famous work, On the Process of Civilisation, this edition features his original English text of the... Læs mere